WrestleMania 36 Review: Night One

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

The Dead Man keeps rollin

Boneyard Match: The Undertaker vs. AJ Styles

A shout out to WWE pulling off one hell of a magic trick, finally making the movie-style match work that they've been trying to since the Boiler Room brawl between Undertaker and Mankind nearly three decades ago.

Not only did the two men involved (as well as Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows) bring it, so did the production team (particularly the cinematographer and editor) and especially Jeremy Borash. Creating a madcap genre-bending masterpiece, that will remain the pinnacle of the most unique night of WrestleMania history.

The match went from the grungy highs of a grindhouse horror film to the epic of an old western tale of the last stand of a cowboy. The Undertaker brought his all with the help of a game AJ Styles, in a fiery clash that bled into the meta depths of his failures and his haunting aura. Every set piece escalated the tension with a sinister score, towards the climactic high. The Undertaker rose from his own grave right behind AJ to bring this personal contest to a phenomenal end.

Result: The Undertaker buries AJ Styles in his grave, to win a cinematic masterpiece!

Rating:

5 stars out of 5! Perfection!